On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 7:09 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 10:01 AM Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 10:00 PM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > I got this compiling on neon unstable.  Our kpipewire is qt6 so I'm not 
>> > sure how that affects it.  I don't have a way to test it quickly though.
>> > https://build.neon.kde.org/job/jammy_unstable_neon-packaging_xwaylandvideobridge/
>>
>> The Qt 6 port is still ongoing:
>> https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge/-/merge_requests/11
>>
>> > How come it's in the system group on invent if you want it to be part of 
>> > Plasma?
>>
>> To be honest, the invent groups are a mystery to me.
>
>
> That is of some degree of concern that you don't understand the groupings.
>
> For the most part the groups are intended to reflect to an extent how the 
> software relates to each other. You will find all of the Educational software 
> under Education for instance, and all Games in Games.
> Likewise, applications for handling images and other similar content are in 
> Graphics, those that deal with video and audio are in Multimedia and 
> libraries for use by other developers are in Libraries.
>
> All fairly straightforward I would have hoped.
>
> The reason for the placement of the XWayland Video Bridge comes back to the 
> initial ticket that requested it be moved from a personal repository - which 
> you filed Aleix.
> This was targeting Graphics, which is clearly inappropriate as it would have 
> put it alongside Krita and Digikam. For want of a better place as it was a 
> bit of infrastructure / behind the scenes tooling it was therefore put in 
> System.
>
> There was never any mention in the ticket that it was going to be exclusive 
> to Plasma and not usable outside of a Plasma setting, hence why that was not 
> considered.
>

It is supposed to be useful outside of KDE Plasma too, so that
assumption is correct.


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